Aglais: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Aglais
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Aglais
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aglais (musician)
Aglais (3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek musician.
She was the daughter of Megalokles or Megakles. Aglais was active as a professional musician (trumpeter) in Alexandria in Egypt. She was engaged for public processions and festivities and appear to have been a well-known musician of her time. During one of her assignments, she appeared in a procession dressed in a wig and a helmet, in the appearance of the goddess Athena.
While there is nothing confirming that she was a hetairai, she was the role model for the mother of the contemporary Aristainetos' fictional character Melissarion, a hetaira whose mother Aglais acted as her pimp.
...Aglais in languages:
- Czech
- babočka
- English
- Tortoiseshells
- Estonian
- Koerliblikad
- Japanese
- コヒオドシ属
- Japanese
- クジャクチョウ属
- Korean
- 쐐기풀나비속
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